Kreplach (Chicken-Liver-Stuffed Pasta) Soup

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These dumplings of stuffed pasta successful chickenhearted crockery -- they are likened to Chinese wonton, Turkish manta and Italian cappelletti -- person a prestigious spot connected the Jewish paper and are usually prepared for specified important days arsenic Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and the festivals of Simchat Torah and Sukkot. They are sometimes served arsenic a pasta archetypal people with nutrient gravy from a roast. There are galore ways to spell with fillings; the chicken-liver 1 that follows is peculiarly good.

Because flours alteration successful value and absorption, this pasta dough look begins with eggs. The flour is added gradually. (One ample ovum absorbs astir 4 ounces of flour.)

The pasta dough needs to remainder for 15 to 30 minutes astatine country temperature. You'll person fractional of the dough near over; to usage it for noodles, chopped them and fto them adust for 15 minutes earlier dusting them with flour, covering and refrigerating for up to 4 days oregon freezing for up to 6 months. You'll besides person leftover filling, which tin beryllium served arsenic an appetizer with crackers and quince jam (see related recipe). The formed kreplach request to remainder 15 minutes earlier cooking.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 5 (makes 20 to 22 pieces)

For the dough

3 ample eggs
1/4 spoon kosher salt
1 1/2 cups to 2 cups flour (9 ounces to 12 ounces), positive much for the enactment aboveground oregon arsenic needed
Water (optional)

For the filling

2 tablespoons rootlike oil
1 ample onion, chopped into tiny dice
1 lb chickenhearted livers, sinew and abdominous trimmed
1/4 spoon kosher salt, positive much arsenic needed
1/4 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper
1/4 spoon crushed cumin

For the soup

8 cups no-salt-added, wide chickenhearted broth, preferably homemade
Chopped flat-leaf parsley, for garnish

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
190
Fat
6 g
Saturated Fat
2 g
Carbohydrates
20 g
Sodium
210 mg
Cholesterol
175 mg
Protein
12 g
Sugar
3 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

The pasta look is adapted from "The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey From Samarkand to New York," by Claudia Roden (Knopf, 1996). The filling look is from Shulie Madnick, who blogs astatine foodwanderings.com.

Tested by Helen Horton.

Published September 23, 2014

Updated March 15, 2026